Welcome

Welcome to One Cove Road. We are a trendy, upmarket and well-renowned coffee shop producing home cooked wholesome food and baking. Idyllically located in Gourock, with stunning views over Cardwell Bay and the Firth of Clyde.

Focusing strongly on quality Scottish produce, we offer an extensive breakfast menu, light lunches and organic, fairtrade coffees and teas. All food is made in store every day.

We are especially renowned for our extensive range of fresh baking, which is lovingly baked right here by our bakers. We are fully licensed, serving specialist wine, beer and spirits.

We pride ourselves in offering everyone the warmest of welcomes. Our staff are here to help your every need and are delighted to welcome families, as well as small, (well-behaved) dogs.

About Us

The owners of One Cove Road, Mariessa and Bernie Devlin were former customers for many years and this place is special to us. It is the place where we come to take time out from the world, it is the place where we have lunch with our young daughter Roisin and the place where Mariessa gets friend therapy every Saturday morning with one of her best friends.

Our vision for One Cove Road is very simple, we want to be the coffee shop of choice within Inverclyde and beyond. We want our guests to experience the excellent service, the delicious tastes, the tantalising aroma and the beautiful cove views all to be found in abundance at One Cove Road.

As Roald Dahl once said ‘There are no strangers in here just friends you haven’t met’….so do come along and join us at One Cove Road, Gourock.

I’m still getting to know Gourock, but was so happy to find this adorable cafe on the sea front. Their breakfasts are delicious – really nice place to sit and read the paper, and the staff are really friendly. I have since been back for lunch and wasn’t disappointed then either – highly recommended.

Sarah Bowden March 2017

We had lunch there on two occasions and the soup we had was as good as we have had anywhere. The selection of cakes was so good that we also had a cake which was moist tasty and also superb. The service was outstanding and the staff could not have been more helpful.

David via Trip Advisor March 2017

Catering

Make every Gathering one to Remember

Our philosophy is that if you are going to eat or drink, it is a time to be savoured. This is as true to our catering as it is to the experience you would have by visiting One Cove Road. Choose from our innovative and delicious menus for:

Whether you are entertaining clients, hosting meetings, organising events or wanting to add a touch of panache to a special family event, we would love to work with you to bring the attention to detail that will ensure your event is a memorable one. Please email info@onecoveroad.co.uk for more information.

On entering our coffee shop, our tower of huge chewy meringues will be the first thing to catch your eye. Served with freshly whipped cream and fresh berries, they are a One Cove Road favourite.

Our scones are legendary and very hard to resist. Baked fresh on the premises each morning, there are usually four different varieties to choose from.

We are always experimenting with new recipes and flavours so, in addition to all our classic favourites, you can also expect to find something just that little bit different.

We invariably have a gluten free option available too and we endeavour to introduce more dairy free and sugar free cakes to our selection.

Our Tea and Coffee

A huge amount of time, effort, thought and research went into choosing our tea and coffee suppliers. We tried, tested and tasted innumerable blends from countless producers and outlets before making our final decision. In the end, it just had to be Matthew Algie for our coffee and Eteaket for our tea, whatsmore they are both Scottish companies.

Matthew Algie created the world’s first triple certified coffee, meaning that it is approved by the Fairtrade Foundation, the Rainforest Alliance and the Organic Food Federation. Above all else however, our principle consideration was taste and Matthew Algie coffee is absolutely delicious! Our customers often comment that nowhere else sells coffee like ours, so with this in mind, our trained baristas aim to deliver a truly exceptional cup of freshly ground organic coffee every time.

At One Cove Road we also know that 165 million cups of tea are drank daily – so tea is the UK’s number one hot drink. With this in mind, we are delighted to have recently expanded our range of award-winning Eteaket Tea and are the only suppliers of this Edinburgh based brew in Inverclyde.

Eteaket tea identified that the UK tea is still a prisoner in its own tea bag, so have developed a wide range of loose leaf tea now offered at One Cove Road. Perfectly served in our new clear teapots, One Cove Road’s new ‘Flowering Tea’ range is expertly hand-sewn by skilled artisans and blossoms beautifully in front of customers. These incredibly beautiful and delicate teas have a fantastic subtle taste and are great as a bit of a treat. Allowing the loose leaf tea to float freely, One Cove Road now serve them in our new range of Magic Tea Presses, an ingenious way to serve the perfect cuppa!

Thank You

Opening Hours

Welcome to our new website…

A warm welcome to our shiny new website, watch this space for news and special events at One Cove Road. We look forward to welcoming customers old and new throughout 2014

Julie.

PS If any of you would like to buy prints of the wonderful illustrations by Wil Freeborn, please just ask.

Eteaket tea launch

I have never been a huge lover of tea. Coffee? Well yes, of course! Tea? Not so much!

I have never really understood why people would choose to order tea over coffee. Coffee is so much more exciting and trendy! Americano, latte, mocha, flat white, cappuccino, frappe, espresso, double espresso, macchiato, ristretto, cortado, tall, grande, venti, double shot, half a shot, extra shot, decaf, skinny, soya, no foam, extra foam, flavoured syrup, extra chocolate, no chocolate, cinnamon, caramel – so many options! Â It takes skill to make a good coffee. You need a Barista who knows how to extract the perfect espresso and can finish off your coffee with some lovely latte art – a fern, a heart, a swan, your face!! To me, tea was a tea bag in a teapot. Dullsville. Fine to have at home or at your Granny’s but not worth paying the money for when out. Research has shown that Britain is falling out of love with tea, being more inclined to swap a traditional cuppa for a cappuccino. We are a nation of coffee lovers apparently.

Erica Moore, founder of eteaket (and originally from Gourock!) saw this as a business opportunity. She felt that tea had an image problem and needed a bit of a makeover. To Erica, tea was a prisoner in its own tea bag so she set out to discover the world of loose leaf tea, travelling all over the world to China, India, Sri Lanka and Japan in search of the best leaves. Then eteaket was born.

I was sceptical when I met Erica for my tea tasting. As I sat and gazed at the tea menu, listing well over 40 different teas, I was sure none of them were going to do much for me. They sounded fabulous yes, but would they deliver in taste? Oh my word, I was blown away. I lost count of how many times I said “wow, that is really nice, I can’t believe I like that!” What fascinated me was how accurate all the descriptions were of each tea and how all the different flavours were coming through. You know that moment when you are in a posh restaurant choosing a bottle of wine and the Sommelier pours you a glass of something lovely and tells you all the different flavours you should be tasting – notes of wood, cherry and tobacco etc – and all you can taste is wine! Well tea tasting at eteaket was different. You actually could taste the rosebuds, mallow, strawberry pieces and dried hay. Each tea had its own characteristic and was truly unique. I loved them all. Even the fruit infusions were out of this world. I have never been one for fruit teas – too artificially sweet and false tasting. Eteaket’s fruit teas are completely different and an absolute pleasure to drink.

I knew I had to have this fabulous range of tea at One Cove Road. Then came the tricky part – deciding which teas to sell. I knew I couldn’t have all 40 odd, there might not be any space left for customers if I did that! So I settled on 12. A few teas from each of the different categories to give a good all-round picture of the world of tea, with the intention of maybe doing a tea of the month to introduce other ones from time to time.

We launched the teas this weekend with some stunning new teaware and we are delighted with the response so far. We will be selling the teas in retail packs also for you to enjoy at home (or at your Granny’s!)

Erica has certainly made me fall in love with tea – you will now more frequently find me sipping on a lovely cup of blooming marvellous green tea than a mocha. And I think my waist line will thank me for it!